Suggestion as to how to get people to become healers.

[Ama_Hamada]

i read all of your post, most of it is irrelevant, Novice Hall came out long after the game became what it was.
the only parts worth responding to are these.

it was never their original intention for every job to be good at AOE, they never intended all the players to play every dungeon as pull everything all at once and AOE them all. it was because the players insisted that this was the best way and that jobs that couldn't do it were shunned that eventually they balanced everything out this way.

the protect SCHs got during game launch was barely worth using. might as well have a PLD use it, cause you needed the WHM to have the Magic Defense trait anyways.

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it doesn't really. a lot of times they didn't know they screwed up till after the playerbase gets a hold of it. we're talking about their original intention before launch. if their pre-launch was balanced for Coil, would WAR have been so terrible? would dragoon take extra damage to magic attacks? they had lots of oversights that required tweaking over time.

the players always exceed their expectations that's why they have to nerf us. remember Virus rotation?

and lots of things got done after the fact, like "well if the players are going to do this", we're going to design new fights specifically to counter it.

So you are telling me jobs where intended to be left out of content? I wouldn't take someone refusing to AoE where AoE is needed, for protect you are talking about a change years old, way to suit your narrative.

Healers where intended to help DPS 2.0 +, (HELL they where basically a nuker that can heal in 1.0 lamo) they just do not know the amounts players would be able carry out. For SCH, the SCH and SMN was a 1.0 relic that did not fit in the game to begin with, so quoting what they did to SCH in any form holds no water to an argument anyway. Giving us leeches at 40 is just ****, to give you an idea how much oversight they can have in regards to balance.

Not having a cross class ability by default does not show intention. They gave lacking tools to give cross classing some purpose, again it is a 1.0 relic, it never did fit in 2.0+, why they are changing things in SB (should happened in HW)